Spies like who? or RIP M.R.D. Foot

[Matthew Cissell]

The obituary in The Economist's March 3rd issue was for Michael Richard Daniel Foot, "historian of secrets". One of the anecdotes from his writing caught my eye. It mentions someone "who ate plastic explosive in the dark, mistaking it for chocolate." Eating explosives? Preposterous. Who would think of such a thing? What's that? Say what? Oh yes, well now that you mention it it does ring a bell. Where have I read something like that before? Hmm. Perhaps truth is stranger than fiction.

MC